For creating an artwork an artist needs to spend a lot of time. The entire process is quite tiresome. The cost of making an artwork is quite high and despite giving his best effort, often an artist does not get the price he deserves. For selling their artworks, some artists also keep the price tag lower than the market rates. A way for recovering the cost is getting the artwork duplicated by printing on canvas.
Nowadays printing on canvas has become easier as the prices of the Giclee Printers have taken a nosedive. An experienced operator can take extraordinary printouts in these printers. However, for stretching an artwork on a canvas certain steps are required to be followed. The artwork requires to be scanned. Then it needs to undergo color correction and retouching. Thereafter, it gets printed to paper and canvas. If the output is on a canvas, it can be extended. Ideally, an artist or painter should not leave the task of stretching the artwork to the consumer. It is not possible for a common person to know How To Stretch Canvas.
In recent times, the Large Format Printers and affordable scanners have made getting one’s original artwork printed and scanned to paper and canvas a straight forward job. Even a few years back, scanning an artwork was costly. Getting it printed on canvas was even more costly for people. But with the advent of technology this has been simplified. There are a number of specialized Giclee Printers that enable an artist to take reprints as and when required.
For the artists who want to produce multiple copies of their artwork by painting on canvas and stretching them, The Gallery Stretcher-60 comes as a worthy choice. The veteran Custom Picture Framers can stretch canvas by hand but it is a very time consuming process. Some Pneumatic Canvas Stretching machines are sold in the market that can be used for printing to canvas. The professional quality canvas stretchers can make gallery wraps. This is a well known process that envelops the picture around the stretcher bar sides.
The Gallery Stretcher-60 is a fully equipped pneumatic Canvas Stretcher machine that can give uniform and tight gallery wraps under 3 minutes without any hassle. It weighs about 48 pounds. It is the brainchild of Dave Weaver and Greg Moulin. The former is an eminent graphic designer while the latter used to serve in the Coast Guard as an engineer. They developed this unique machine after 1 year of elaborate testing and experimenting. While they did not want to make it for commercial production, the rising need and favorable response the product got prompted them to make it available for public in 2008. The best part about the device is that it does not need electricity to operate.
